The Gospel of Mark (Daily Study Bible)

obedience-and-authority

• 'Be silent,' he said, 'and come out of him.' Even unclean spirits obey him — a new kind of teaching with authority.

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• The rejected stone became the keystone — the stone the builders discarded bound everything together.

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faith-and-doubt

• 'Don't be afraid! Only keep on believing!' — Jesus to the ruler whose daughter has just died.

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• The new covenant is not dependent on keeping the law but on the shed blood — a relationship recast entirely.

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calling

• Jesus knew he could not live without God; if he was forever giving out, he must be at least sometimes taking in.

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• Sinners sought Jesus's company; the orthodox would have frozen them out with bleak condemnation and arrogant superiority.

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